IMC Practice Problems

Grades 9-10
IMC 2023 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 1
IMC 2022 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 4
IMC 2021 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 8
Practice Problems 2020………………………………………………………………… Pg. 12
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IMC 2023 Grade 9-10

1. What is the least six-digit number in which the sum of the digits equals 33?

2. One of the faces of a polyhedron is a hexagon. What is the least number of faces this
polyhedron can have?

3. How many positive integers n have the following property?

If you divide n by 29, the quotient and the remainder are the same.

4. Elizabeth spent $ n on ingredients to make a huge cake, and then sold the cake for $171, which
is n % more than the amount she spent. Find n .

5. Calculate.

6. The numbers A , B , and C satisfy the following identities.

Find

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7. Two circles are internally tangent and their centers both lie on AB. MN is a chord of the larger
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circle, MN ∥ AB, and MN is tangent to the smaller circle, MN = 14.
A
Find π where A is the area of the shaded region.

(x − 5)2
8. The inequality ≤ 0 has exactly one solution for x . What is the value of a ?
(x − 3)4(x − 7)(x − a)

9. How many natural numbers contain at least two digits and all of the digits are in increasing
order?

10. A straight line passes through point (17, 0) and intersects the parabola y = 17x 2 at points that
have abscissas a and b .

Find (1 1
2023 a + b . )
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11. Median AM of triangle ABC is half the length of side AC and makes an angle of 32° with side
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AC. Find the measure of ∠BAC in degrees.

12. The positive integers from 1 to 2023 are written in a row like this: 1234567891011...20222023.
How many times does the number 10 appear in the row?

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13. How many integer roots does the equation have?

14. Whenever a number is entered into a special machine, the machine adds the number to its
copy, but the last digit of the copy is removed before the addition. The machine then outputs the
sum to the user. (For example, if you enter 2023, the output is 2023 + 202 = 2225.)

Alex entered each natural number from 1 to 999 in order. What is the greatest three-digit number
that the machine never gave as output to Alex?

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Question No. Answer

1 105999 or 105,999

2 7

3 28

4 90

5 2025 or 2,025

6 354

7 49

8 7

9 502

10
119

11 106°

12 141

13 6

14 989
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IMC 2022 Grade 9-10

1. What is the last digit of the product of all of the odd numbers from 1 to 99?

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2. Calculate.
97 − 310
22 · 272 + 42 · 93

3. Find the least value of the fraction (where x is a real number).

13x 2 + 6
2x 2 + 1

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4. Find 4-digit number MATH if
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MMMM − A + TT − HHH = 2022.
The same letters represent the same digits, but different letters can represent different digits or the
same digits.

5. The rectangle is made of eight squares. Find the area of the rectangle if the area of the yellow
square is 90.

6. How many integer solutions does the inequality have?

(|x| − 13)(|x| + 13)
|x| − 2
≤0

3
7. A flower kiosk is selling roses and carnations that are either red or white. 5 of all the flowers
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are red, 3 of all the flowers are roses, and 20 of all the roses are white. What percent of all the
flowers are white carnations?

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8. In triangle ABC, the point M(−1, 0) is the midpoint of AB and N(a, b) is the midpoint of BC .
Find a 2 + b 2 if A = (−2, −1) and C = (2, −5).

9. Find the sum of all integer solutions of the inequality.

log0.5(x ) > x − 6

10. Given a sequence { t n }, let S n be the sum of the first n elements of { t n }.

Find t 2022 if S n = n 2 + 6n for all positive integers n .

11. A bag contains 8 red marbles and 2 yellow marbles. A second bag contains 16 red marbles and
some number of yellow marbles. One marble is drawn at random from each bag. How many
yellow marbles are in the second bag if the probability that both marbles pulled out are the same
1
color is 3 ?

12. Find the sum of the digits of the number A.

13. Find the product of all real roots of the equation.

( x 4 − 6x 2 + 10)x 2 − 3x − 14 = 1

14. The diagonals of quadrilateral ABCD intersect at O . The areas of the triangles AOB and COD
are 20 and 45, respectively. Find the smallest possible area of ABCD.

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Question No. Answer

1 5

2 324

3 6

4 The number is 2022 or 2,022.

5 184

6 22

7 25%

8 5

9 6

10

11 56

12 99

13 42

14 125
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IMC 2021
Grade 9-10
1. Calculate:

( 1 )−11
27−3 · 3

2. Amanda thought over her 41st chess move for 64 seconds. For each of the following moves, she
thought for 25% more seconds than she had for the previous move. How many seconds did
Amanda think over her 44th move?

3. A bag contains 12 red marbles, 9 yellow marbles, and some number of green marbles. How
1
many green marbles are in the bag if the probability of drawing a green marble in one try is 8 ?

4. Find the area of quadrilateral ABCD if m∠A = 90° and the side lengths of the quadrilateral are
3, 4, 12, and 13 units, as shown in the figure.

Not drawn to scale

5. Given two consecutive natural numbers, the square of their sum is 180 more than the sum of
their squares. Find the smaller of these two numbers.

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6. Alex, Brian, and Carlton competed in the same weight-lifting category this year, and one of
them won! The weight Alex lifted plus the weight Brian lifted was 220 kg. The weights lifted by
Alex and Carlton totaled 240 kg. And the weights lifted by Brian and Carlton totaled 250 kg.
How many kilograms did the winner lift?

7. Find the value of k if the roots of the following quadratic equation are natural numbers.
3x 2 − kx +15 = 0

8. Find the sum of the integer solutions of the inequality

|x − 16| < |x + 4|
that are in the range [−10, 10].

9. Calculate:
1 1 1
2 · log2 (1,000,000) · ( + + )
log 2 (100) log 2 (1,000) log 2 (10,000)

10. The product of the first five terms of a geometric progression is 243. Find the fifth term if the
fourth term is 12.

11. Point M is located on side BC of rectangle ABCD such that BM : MC = 2 : 1. Point N is the
midpoint of side AD. Segment MN intersects diagonal BD at point O . Find the area of ABCD if
the area of triangle BON is 4 square units.

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12. Four lions and four tigers are walking in a row to get ice cream. The lions are fighting, so they
are not walking next to each other. In how many different ways can the four lions and four tigers
walk if no two lions are the same and no two tigers are the same?

13. Find the number of integer solutions of the following inequality that are in the range [−5, 5].
x2−x

( 415 ) x
≥1

14. How many different five-digit numbers that are divisible by 4 can you write with the six digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? All five digits in each number must be different.

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Question No. Answer

1 9

2 125 seconds.

3 3 green marbles are in the bag.

4 The area of quadrilateral ABCD is 36 square units.

5 The smaller of these two numbers is 9.

6 The winner lifted 135 kg.

7 k = 18.

8 34

9 13

10 The fifth term is 48.

11 The area of ABCD is 28 square units.

12 The four lions and four tigers can walk in 2880 or 2,880 different ways.

13 6

14 144
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2020 Practice Problems Grades 9-10

1. Kevin found out that 3 apples and 1 pear weigh as much as 10 plums. 6 plums and 1
apple weigh as much as 1 pear. How many plums does Kevin need to balance 1
pear?

127 − 126
2. Calculate: 9 .
2  272 + 15  44  92

3. A square and an equilateral triangle are shown in the figure. Find angle x (in degrees).

4. Two skiers are moving in a circular path in the same direction. One of them is the
champion of the city. The other one has started training only recently. The
champion completes each lap 2 minutes faster than the beginner. He overtakes the
beginner every 24 minutes. How many minutes does it take for the champion to
complete a circle?

5. Find x 2 + y 2 , if x 2 − 2 x + y 2 − 4 y + 5 = 0 .

6. Find the smallest value of the function

f ( a ) = a 2 + 8a + 16 + a 2 − 8a + 16 .
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7. The mean, median, and unique mode of the set of positive integers {2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, x}
are a, b, and c respectively. At least two of the three numbers a, b, and c are the
same. Find the sum of all possible values of x.

8. The sequence {xn } is given by conditions x1 = 20 , x2 = −21 , xn+1 = xn − xn−1 ( n  2 ).

Find x2021 .

1 1
9. Find + , where a and b are the roots of the equation 3x2 − 8x + 2 = 0 .
a b

10. In a geometric sequence t2 = 6 and t5 = 162 . Find t4 + t6 .

11. Find the sum of all real roots of the equation:

log 4 ( 2 x − 1) − log 2 ( x − 2 ) = 0 .

12. The soldiers at the parade lined up in a rectangle with 10 rows and 5 columns. You
need to choose three soldiers so that neither two of them stand in the same row or
in the same column. How many different combinations of such choices are there?

13. In a trapezoid, the diagonals are 30 and 40 units. The length of the midsegment is 25
units. Find the distance between the bases of this trapezoid (i.e. the height of the
trapezoid).

14. A row of n integers from 1 to n (where n is a positive even number) is written on the
n
blackboard. Then consecutive numbers were wiped out from this row. The sum
2
of the remaining numbers on the blackboard is 2021. What is the sum of all
possible values of n?
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ANSWERS

Question Answer
No.
1 7
2 48
3 111
4 6
5 5
6 8
7 20
8 21
9 4
10 540
11 5
12 7200
13 24
14 180